identd processes

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

David was referrring to the identd daemon responds to an ident request and 
returns some information to the requestor. This is a feature used by some 
IRC servers. You should be able to turn off the identd daemon by commening 
out the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf. Then you should restart your 
inetd. In Red Hat, as root, "/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd restart".  SuSE users 
will find the init.d directory in /sbin.
Evan S wrote:
> It depends. Look in /etc/inetd.conf. When you kill inetd, all your services
> listed in that file will stop. But, you do _not_ need inetd running.
> 
> On 07-Sep-2000 David Lapointe wrote:
> > I was still having problems with Netscape starting up really slow and  popu
> p
> > warnings asking me to decide between removing the app and waiting for the
> > save-yourself process to be found.  
> > 
> > This started after I put  a  residential gateway between my cable modem and
> > my
> > home LAN.  Running the admin tool indicated just under 20 identd sessions
> > going.
> > 
> > I stopped the identd and voila , no more startup problems with Netscape.
> > 
> > My question: do I need identd running?  I suspect there is a problem with i
> t
> > and  the residential gateway.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  -- 
> >  .david
> >  David Lapointe
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